

Two Films to Know
Cipher in the Snow (1974) - LDS Classic Film “Cipher in the Snow” This film was made in 1973, thus please overlook the poofy hairdos and the Ghostbusters-like Ambulance. I first saw this film at a professional development seminar and from then on I used to go and borrow the 16mm film from SaskFilm & show it every year to my class. Then I would have the students write about their point of view of Cliff Evans: how he was a cypher, not legally adopted by his stepfather wh
Julie A.
Feb 115 min read


The Song you ALREADY know! The backstory you NEED to know!
“O Fortuna” from “Carmina Burana” Every person has a backstory!! Every song has a backstory! Perhaps look up Billy Joel’s “The Piano Man”! Be curious! (not judgemental) You KNOW this Medieval Latin Goliatdic poem (now a song), as part of “Carmina Burana”, whether from a beer commercial or other product, or from movies adding suspense and/or vexations about the inexorable fate that rules both gods and mortals in Roman mythology. Medieval Latin was the form of Literary Latin
Julie A.
Feb 27 min read











